“When the object that is produced...the photographic image...has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.” MatterEyeAbilityObjectsTearsInspirePhotographyBreathsPhotographer Author:John Sexton
“Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.” BeautifulAbilityFictionQualityPhotographyConsequenceCompellingSevereAmbiguityBlurMisused Author:Taryn Simon
“Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world.” WorldDreamAbilitySecretPhotographyPhotographRecognitionFascinationCognitiveBouquets Author:Jack Welpott
“We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know.” PeopleGrowthAbilityPowerfulPhotographyPhotographerPhotographAliensAsk MeRhetoricProvokingVery Powerful Author:Stuart Franklin
“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.” IfsMindFeelingsEyeChanceAbilityPracticeParticularPhotographySightPhotographPrintIntuitiveGood Chance Author:Ansel Adams
“I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'” IdeasAbilityProgressPaintingPhotographyEverydayVisualsEveryday LifeSculptureTurning Points Author:Jerry Saltz
“Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.” MomentsFeelingsEyePurposeTermImaginationAbilityCasesMediaPhotographyPhotographerPhotographExpectedFixedVisualsSoarEvokeEludeSnapshotsInspiring PhotographyDecisive Moments Author:Ralph Gibson
“Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.” PeopleMenAbilityDependsPhotographyFellowsPhotographerFellow ManSuccess Or Failure Author:Edward Weston
“The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.” YearsHandsAbilityResultsPhotographyLaborInstinctPhotographerPhotographArtistic Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes